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RCRTech engages industry communities through research-driven content, conversations, and connections. Building on 40+ years of RCR Wireless News excellence, RCRTech delivers trusted insights informing and connecting technology buyers with innovators shaping connectivity and compute.
James BlackmanAI workloads are changing the way fiber networks are being designed, deployed, and upgraded; they also change how we should assess them. No longer just about reach and speed, connectivity now requires control, scalability, and proximity to data and compute resources. This first instalment of a 20-point checklist examines the backbone, access, interconnect, and optical capabilities that determine whether a …
Juan Pedro TomásLisa Su, AMD chair and CEO, said that a recent partnership with OpenAI will significantly accelerate the firm’s data center AI business In sum – what to know: Data center revenue surges 22% – AMD’s data center segment hit $4.3 billion in Q3, driven by strong demand for 5th Gen EPYC CPUs and Instinct MI350 GPUs. OpenAI deal cements AI …
The UK’s ambitions for a sovereign AI ecosystem are accelerating as Dutch AI infrastructure firm Nebius launches its first UK deployment and private investors pledge billions. Projects from Nscale, CoreWeave, and AI Pathfinder, aligned with government strategies signal a convergence of public policy and private-sector build-out. In sum – what to know: Nebius launch – new London-based Nebius facility, powered …
The Industrial AI Cloud, powered by up to 10,000 Nvidia GPUs, will allow manufacturers, automakers, and robotics firms to deploy AI-driven digital twins, predictive maintenance, and large-scale simulation workloads In sum – what to know: Europe’s first Industrial AI Cloud debuts – Deutsche Telekom and Nvidia launch a sovereign, enterprise-grade platform to power AI innovation across German industries. Massive compute …
Sean Kinney One stop at a time Author’s note: I’m one of those AuDHD people you encounter in tech, media and tech media. CES and Las Vegas are exhausting, but I wanted to get this written while still having some fun. So, I landed on a format where I write a section, have a drink, take the monorail one stop, then repeat. …
Christian de LooperYou don’t have to own the hardware for AI. But should you? Every organization building with AI eventually has to decide whether to own the hardware or rent it. This isn’t necessarily always a financial calculation. It touches data security, talent pipelines, hardware obsolescence, and the fundamentally unpredictable nature of AI workloads. A startup spinning up its first large language …
Will open-source chips democratize the industry? In the early 1990s, a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds released a free operating system kernel called Linux. This new operating system, together with projects like Apache, proved that collaborative, open-source development could produce software that competes with and surpasses propriety alternatives. These days, Linux runs on everything from smartphones to supercomputers, and open-source …
Non-exclusive agreement transfers key talent and technology while Groq remains independent In sum – what we know: Nvidia and chip startup Groq have announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement reportedly worth around $20 billion. The announcement turned heads immediately — not just because of the price tag, which clocks in at nearly three times Groq’s $6.9 billion valuation from just months earlier, but …
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